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A request for information follows, originally posted to FICINO. If you have anything of interest to pass on to Germaine about the Sidney bookplate, please reply directly to her at the address given below (at the end of the message). AAY Forwarded message: As part of my work on an edition of the library catalogue of the Sidney family, of Penshurst Place, Kent, I am searching for books bearing the bookplate of Philip Sidney, fifth earl of Leicester, dated 1704. The plate is one of those with an "early armorial" design engraved by William Jackson for notable families, more or less "on spec", between 1695 and 1715. The date of 1704 is technically beyond the range of my catalogue, which appears to be from the late 1660s. However, evidence I have found suggests that some of the books, at least, with this bookplate may have been in the Old Library at Penshurst. I'm writing a number of libraries, and indeed contacting everyone I know, to ask if they are aware of other volumes with this bookplate in their collections. The volumes I am most interested in are the pre-1665 ones, of course, but in order to sift the evidence, it would help to be aware of every title. Should a post-1704 volume bear the bookplate that too would be important, as I have to keep in mind the possibility that some of the same plates continued to be pasted in books even after the fifth earl's death. Have you seen this bookplate on any volumes in the libraries you work in? Any information you can give me would be very warmly received. Germaine Warkentin Professor of English, Victoria College, University of Toronto [log in to unmask]